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> Wouldn’t it be great if the user could just pick a “push notifications provider” in the phone settings and OS managed all these hard details by itself? Havin
by pndy 8y ago
> Wouldn’t it be great if the user could just pick a “push notifications provider” in the phone settings and OS managed all these hard details by itself?
Having the possibility of choice is a good thing but in this particular case I don't think it would be good if 3rd party notifications providers were available. This should be an integral part of the OS, not a field for competition; knowing that Google itself can harvest data from notifications we can't exclude the possibility that there would appear companies interested only in that activity, at the same time enticing users with pretty and simple design of notifications or whatever else.
- anticensor 8y agoYou would need a standard API like intent API.
- GranPC 8y agoWell, any Android app can harvest data from notifications right now, by setting up a notification listener. I don't see how this would be any different.
- izacus 8y agoOf course this "harvesting" needs to be explicitly approved by the user.
- lucb1e 8y agoThe difference is that it's server side. I'm not aware whether the third party server logs my messages, but I am aware when an app has local permissions (you can see it in the permissions overview) to read my notifications.